Description: This volume constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the IFIP
WG 3.4 International Conference on Open and Social Technologies for
Networked Learning, OST 2012, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in
July/August 2012. The 16 full papers presented together with 3
short papers and 5 doctoral student papers were thoroughly reviewed
and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide
range of topics such as mobile learning, social networks, analytics
and recommendations, workplace learning, learning analytics in
higher education, collaborative learning in higher education, and
managing open and social education.

Description:
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 12
international workshops held in Tallinn, Estonia, in conjunction
with the 10th International Conference on Business Process
Management, BPM 2012, in September 2012.

Description:
To large organizations, business intelligence (BI) promises the
capability of collecting and analyzing internal and external data
to generate knowledge and value, thus providing decision support
at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. BI is now
impacted by the “Big Data” phenomena and the evolution of society
and users. In particular, BI applications must cope with
additional heterogeneous (often Web-based) sources, e.g., from
social networks, blogs, competitors’, suppliers’, or
distributors’ data, governmental or NGO-based analysis and
papers, or from research publications. In addition, they must be… more…

Description:
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 12
international workshops held in Tallinn, Estonia, in conjunction
with the 10th International Conference on Business Process
Management, BPM 2012, in September 2012.

Description:
To large organizations, business intelligence (BI) promises the
capability of collecting and analyzing internal and external data
to generate knowledge and value, thus providing decision support
at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. BI is now
impacted by the “Big Data” phenomena and the evolution of society
and users. In particular, BI applications must cope with
additional heterogeneous (often Web-based) sources, e.g., from
social networks, blogs, competitors’, suppliers’, or
distributors’ data, governmental or NGO-based analysis and
papers, or from research publications. In addition, they must be… more…

Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of eight
international workshops held in Gdansk, Poland, in conjunction with
the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems
Engineering, CAiSE 2012, in June 2012. The 35 full and 17 short
revised papers were carefully selected from 104 submissions. The
eight workshops were Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES),
Business/IT Alignment and Interoperability (BUSITAL), Enterprise
and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS), Governance,
Risk and Compliance (GRCIS), Human-Centric Process-Aware
Information Systems (HC-PAIS), System and Software Architectures
(IWSSA),… more…

Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of eight
international workshops held in Gdansk, Poland, in conjunction with
the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems
Engineering, CAiSE 2012, in June 2012. The 35 full and 17 short
revised papers were carefully selected from 104 submissions. The
eight workshops were Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES),
Business/IT Alignment and Interoperability (BUSITAL), Enterprise
and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS), Governance,
Risk and Compliance (GRCIS), Human-Centric Process-Aware
Information Systems (HC-PAIS), System and Software Architectures
(IWSSA),… more…

Description: This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS) which
was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2012. At the
conference, researchers from all over the world presented
innovative ideas, research, and applications in the design,
management, and evaluation of services. This year, the main theme
was the interdisciplinary aspect of services. The 22 full papers
accepted for IESS were selected from 46 submissions and presented
ideas and results related to innovation, services discovery,
services engineering, and services management as well as the
application of services in… more…

Description: This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS) which
was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2012. At the
conference, researchers from all over the world presented
innovative ideas, research, and applications in the design,
management, and evaluation of services. This year, the main theme
was the interdisciplinary aspect of services. The 22 full papers
accepted for IESS were selected from 46 submissions and presented
ideas and results related to innovation, services discovery,
services engineering, and services management as well as the
application of services in… more…

Description: This book contains the thoroughly refereed and revised best papers
from the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems
and Technologies, WEBIST 2012, held in Porto, Portugal, in April
2012, and organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies
of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), in
collaboration with ACM SIGMIS. The 23 papers presented in this book
were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The
papers were selected from those with the best reviews also taking
into account the quality of their presentation at the conference.
The papers are grouped into parts on Internet Technology; Web
Interfaces… more…